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Amjad Masad

Founder & CEO @ Replit

Founded Replit, the browser-based IDE and AI coding platform. Previously worked on developer tools at Facebook.

β€œBehind the product: Replit, covering product design, AI product work, and engineering tradeoffs.”

Career History

CompanyRoleYears
ReplitFounder & CEO2016-present
MetaSoftware Engineer / Tech Lead, JavaScript Infrastructure2013-2016
CodecademyFounding Engineer2011-2013

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β€œYeah, that's what we do. Everything that commenter was talking about, and he's right. The surprising thing about an 11-year-old building an app is not so much even the coding, it is like all the nonse...”
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Behind the product: Replit | Amjad Masad (co-founder and CEO)

7:59
β€œOh, you were an engineer. I didn't know that.”
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Behind the product: Replit | Amjad Masad (co-founder and CEO)

8:24
β€œYes or you can hire someone. We have a feature on the site called Bounties where you can hire human coders to kind of help you finish.”
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Behind the product: Replit | Amjad Masad (co-founder and CEO)

19:00
β€œYou know what we want to do? We want to get to a point where the agent can go grab a human when it runs into a problem. I think that would be sick.”
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Behind the product: Replit | Amjad Masad (co-founder and CEO)

19:18
β€œLet's see how it restart. Okay, we'll wait for it.”
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Behind the product: Replit | Amjad Masad (co-founder and CEO)

20:11
β€œA few days, I would say to a week. I mean, if you're really good, it might be hours but it probably would take me a few days. I would say I'm like decent engineer, it'll take you a few days.”
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Behind the product: Replit | Amjad Masad (co-founder and CEO)

20:22
β€œYeah, and it probably cost us something in the sense.”
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Behind the product: Replit | Amjad Masad (co-founder and CEO)

20:43
β€œIn terms of compute, yeah. Probably, I would estimate it like 15 cents or something like that.”
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Behind the product: Replit | Amjad Masad (co-founder and CEO)

20:52
β€œHere it is. And the agent was like, "Okay, this is looking good, completed it if you want to deploy it." But I'm like, "Okay, I'm going to test it first."”
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Behind the product: Replit | Amjad Masad (co-founder and CEO)

21:01
β€œYeah. It's not local host, it's on a Replit but yes, it's the equivalent of local host. Because it's really easy, I can even invite you to this session. You can be here with me and so it's all online.”
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Behind the product: Replit | Amjad Masad (co-founder and CEO)

21:13
β€œYeah. So it says, "Would you like me to help you register account?" So it's creating an account, an admin account for me. So it's not only builds things, it also maintains things. In this case, it's a...”
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Behind the product: Replit | Amjad Masad (co-founder and CEO)

22:26
β€œWe use Google Cloud. So we abstract all of that away from you, but we use Google Cloud behind the scenes.”
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Behind the product: Replit | Amjad Masad (co-founder and CEO)

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